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I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is

www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/hurricane-milton-conspiracies-misinformation/680221

This reality-fracturing is the result of an information ecosystem that is dominated by platforms that offer financial and attentional incentives to lie and enrage, and to turn every tragedy and large event into a shameless content-creation opportunity. This collides with a swath of people who would rather live in an alternate reality built on distrust and grievance than change their fundamental beliefs about the world. But the misinformation crisis is not always what we think it is.